.99%
and
3.5%
The percentages, respectively, "of all military members in treatment for mental disorders" in 2000 and 2012, representing a 60% increase, according to an article in the May 2014 issue of the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a publication issued by the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center.
Welcome to June and this week’s edition of CDP News! We like to use this space to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, while also looking ahead to upcoming events. Summer is heating up around here, but that’s not slowing us down any!
The CDP's weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS).
● Commentary on “The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS)”: Army STARRS: A Framingham-Like Study of Psychological Health Risk Factors in Soldiers
Provider sustainment is a challenge facing many military mental health and other health care providers. The book, “Gifts of the Heart,” written by Dr. Hassan A. Tettah, is a tale of how a Navy surgeon sustains himself through and after his arduous deployment in the Helmand Valley of Afghanistan. While this story is not an autobiography, it was influenced by real life events. The author was a Navy surgeon who first deployed to the Persian Gulf in 2005 and then later deployed to Afghanistan in 2011.
4.3%
The percentage of 1,084 U.S. Air Force drone operators who "endorsed a pattern of symptoms of moderate to extreme level of severity" of PTSD, according to a new study in the Journal of Anxiety Disorders, An Analysis of Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in United States Air Force Drone Operators.